On 01/05/06 16:45, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 01 May 2006 6:32 am, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 29/04/06 07:21, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have a 9.2 system here where the network card(Realtek 8139) and the on-board sound have the same IRQ.
If either of the devices is a busmaster, then it should not matter if they share the irq. One of my network cards is a busmaster, and my sound card, both network cards, and USB are all on the same irq with no problems.
Would moving eth0 to a different PCI slot help?
If it is a busmaster, the preferred place is in slot 0.
I have a laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1000) with apparent IRQ conflicts, but I obviously can't move cards around -- and on this particular machine, the brain-damaged BIOS has no facilities for tinkering with IRQs. The symptom is peculiar: KDE hangs on bootup if my network wireless card is inserted and runs fine if it isn't. But if I insert the card once KDE has started, both KDE and networking are happy.
Paul
Am I correct in assuming, from what you say here, that the system will boot successfully to runlevel 3? If so, then I do not think this is a serious hardware conflict, if indeed it is a conflict at all. Rather, something somewhere in KDE is the problem. What that might be, I cannot say, but the SuSEplugger, if running, might be something to look at.